The first table below looks at the demand for MPLS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cardiff region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MPLS over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Communications & Networking category for the Cardiff region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
Rank 45 50 -
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -
Permanent jobs citing MPLS 21 1 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cardiff 3.671% 0.233% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 19.09% 1.667% -
Number of salaries quoted 20 1 0
Average salary £41,250 £40,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.12% -
UK excluding London average salary £41,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year
-8.88% -
All Communications & Networking
Cardiff
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
110 60 62
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cardiff 19.23% 13.99% 10.92%
Number of salaries quoted 101 57 56
Average salary £32,500 £37,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-13.33% -
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £24,000 £27,300
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £45,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
MPLS
South Wales

MPLS
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing MPLS across the Cardiff region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Cardiff MPLS Jobs Demand Trend

MPLS
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing MPLS across the Cardiff region.

Cardiff MPLS Salary Trend

MPLS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MPLS across the Cardiff region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Cardiff MPLS Salary Histogram

MPLS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cardiff region citing MPLS also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited MPLS.

1 25 (96.15%) Cisco
2 20 (76.92%) WAN
2 20 (76.92%) CCNP
2 20 (76.92%) Cisco Certification
2 20 (76.92%) BGP
3 18 (69.23%) Network Design
4 17 (65.38%) OSPF
5 15 (57.69%) EIGRP
6 14 (53.85%) Firewall
7 13 (50.00%) Juniper
7 13 (50.00%) DHCP
8 11 (42.31%) Ethernet
8 11 (42.31%) CCIE
8 11 (42.31%) HSRP
9 10 (38.46%) VPN
9 10 (38.46%) DNS
9 10 (38.46%) LAN
9 10 (38.46%) VoIP
10 9 (34.62%) Cloud Computing
11 8 (30.77%) xDSL
11 8 (30.77%) Cisco IOS
11 8 (30.77%) Cisco ASA
11 8 (30.77%) VPLS
11 8 (30.77%) Cisco Nexus
11 8 (30.77%) Network Management
11 8 (30.77%) Junos
11 8 (30.77%) Unified Communications
11 8 (30.77%) PPP
11 8 (30.77%) RIP
11 8 (30.77%) SNMP

MPLS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cardiff region citing MPLS also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited MPLS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (7.692%) Middleware
1 2 (7.692%) .NET
1 2 (7.692%) CSS
1 2 (7.692%) JSP
1 2 (7.692%) XML
1 2 (7.692%) HTML
2 1 (3.846%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 6 (23.08%) Lync
2 4 (15.38%) MS Exchange
3 1 (3.846%) Apache
3 1 (3.846%) Tomcat
3 1 (3.846%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.846%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (3.846%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 6 (23.08%) MS Excel
2 2 (7.692%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.846%) INSURE/90
Communications & Networking
1 20 (76.92%) WAN
1 20 (76.92%) BGP
2 17 (65.38%) OSPF
3 15 (57.69%) EIGRP
4 14 (53.85%) Firewall
5 13 (50.00%) DHCP
6 11 (42.31%) Ethernet
6 11 (42.31%) HSRP
7 10 (38.46%) VPN
7 10 (38.46%) DNS
7 10 (38.46%) LAN
7 10 (38.46%) VoIP
8 8 (30.77%) xDSL
8 8 (30.77%) Cisco IOS
8 8 (30.77%) Cisco ASA
8 8 (30.77%) VPLS
8 8 (30.77%) Cisco Nexus
8 8 (30.77%) Junos
8 8 (30.77%) Unified Communications
8 8 (30.77%) PPP
General
1 8 (30.77%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 12 (46.15%) Network Engineer
2 6 (23.08%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 5 (19.23%) Design Engineer
3 5 (19.23%) Network Design Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Architect
4 3 (11.54%) Network Architect
5 2 (7.692%) Network Support
5 2 (7.692%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 2 (7.692%) Cisco Engineer
5 2 (7.692%) Cisco Consultant
5 2 (7.692%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
5 2 (7.692%) Operations Engineer
5 2 (7.692%) Cisco Network Consultant
5 2 (7.692%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 2 (7.692%) Analyst
5 2 (7.692%) Network Consultant
5 2 (7.692%) Consultant
5 2 (7.692%) Support Engineer
5 2 (7.692%) 2nd Line Support
5 2 (7.692%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (34.62%) Cloud Computing
2 6 (23.08%) Blog
3 2 (7.692%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.54%) Windows
2 1 (3.846%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (69.23%) Network Design
2 8 (30.77%) Network Management
3 7 (26.92%) ITIL
4 5 (19.23%) PRINCE2
4 5 (19.23%) Load Balancing
4 5 (19.23%) Project Planning
5 4 (15.38%) Network Architecture
6 1 (3.846%) Change Management
6 1 (3.846%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (11.54%) SQL
2 2 (7.692%) VB.NET
2 2 (7.692%) Java
2 2 (7.692%) JavaScript
2 2 (7.692%) RPG
Qualifications
1 20 (76.92%) CCNP
1 20 (76.92%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (42.31%) CCIE
3 7 (26.92%) CCDP
3 7 (26.92%) CCIP
4 5 (19.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 4 (15.38%) CCSP
6 3 (11.54%) CCDA
7 2 (7.692%) CCSE
7 2 (7.692%) JNCIA
7 2 (7.692%) JNCIS
7 2 (7.692%) CCSA
7 2 (7.692%) CCVP
7 2 (7.692%) CCNA
8 1 (3.846%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.846%) SLA
1 1 (3.846%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.846%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 25 (96.15%) Cisco
2 13 (50.00%) Juniper
3 8 (30.77%) VMware
4 7 (26.92%) F5
5 6 (23.08%) Microsoft
6 3 (11.54%) Intel
6 3 (11.54%) CheckPoint
7 2 (7.692%) SolarWinds
7 2 (7.692%) Nortel
8 1 (3.846%) JBoss
8 1 (3.846%) Avaya
8 1 (3.846%) NetApp
8 1 (3.846%) Twitter
Cardiff, South Glamorgan
Main responsibilities will be: Network design of WAN, IP, MPLS, LAN and Security solutions. Application of CCIP/CCNP level troubleshooting and diagnostics of networking issues. Deliver standard solutions...
Randstad Technologies
Salary: £43000 - £45000 per annum + Health + Pension + 20%Bonus
Posted: 20 May 2013
Cardiff, South Glamorgan
Network design of WAN, IP, MPLS, LAN and Security solutions. Application of CCIP/CCNP level troubleshooting and diagnostics of networking issues. Deliver standard solutions basic BGP; HSRP and...
Randstad Technologies
Salary: £50000 - £55000 per annum + Health, Pension, 20% Bonus
Posted: 20 May 2013
Cardiff, South Glamorgan
NETWORK Design ** NETWORK Architecture ** NETWORK implementation ** CCDA ** CCIE ** TDA ** Managed Service Professional ** CISCO ** Network Architect is needed by one of the UK's fastest growing Hosted Infrastructure Managed...
Randstad Technologies
Salary: £55000 - £60000 per annum + 20% Bonus + Health + Pension
Posted: 20 May 2013